Who is The Fairest One of All? How Evolution Guides Peer and Media Influences on Female Body Dissatisfaction

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Peer Influence, Internet use and Cyberbullying: A Comparison of Different Context Effects among German Adolescents (2013, background): “Recent research on peer influence distinguishes between active effects via explicit communication and passive effects through more or less unconscious processes such as observation or social comparison (e.g., Ferguson et al., 2011).”
In the eye of the beholder: Thin-ideal media affects some, but not most, viewers in a meta-analytic review of body dissatisfaction in women and men. (2013, background): “Peer effects may arguably be one critical control (Ferguson et al., 2011) although relatively few articles controlled for this. where publication bias was indicated.”
Social Media Effects on Young Women’s Body Image Concerns: Theoretical Perspectives and an Agenda for Research (2014, background): “…suggests that media thinness portrayals can exert deleterious influences, ones with potentially serious psychological implications, in combination with certain individual difference factors, a point acknowledged even by scholars who doubt the pervasiveness of media effects (Ferguson et al. 2011).”